Accomplished screenwriters Dot West and Kelly Lefever will lead a new training initiative designed to foster First Nations creative talent in Victoria.
First Nations media executive Dot West, late writer/director Shirley Barrett, and showrunner, writer, and director Tony Ayres have received honorary degrees from the Australian Film Television and Radio School.
Educator, producer, and photographer Susie Annus is the newest member of the CinefestOZ board, as the festival prepares for its Albany event next month.
'Blaze', 'How To Please A Woman', 'Sissy' and 'Sweet As' will contend for the best original feature prize at this year’s AWGIE Awards, while 'Mrs Harris Goes to Paris', 'The Stranger' and 'The Drover's Wife The Legend of Molly Johnson' are up for the adapted gong. 'The Newsreader' leads in television with two nominations alongside 'Total Control', 'Firebite', 'Bump' and 'Heartbreak High'.
Western Australian screenwriter and producer Dorothy ‘Dot’ West has been appointed to the CinefestOZ board.
Actor Maggie Dence, Event Cinemas chairman Alan Rydge and the late David Leckie, former chief executive of Seven and Nine, were among the screen industry professionals to receive Queen's Birthday Honours over the long weekend.
New seasons of children’s series, 'The PM’s Daughter' and 'Little J & Big Cuz' are among the eight projects that will share in $5.5 million of production funding from Screen Australia
Prolific screenwriter, script producer and story editor Kelly Lefever is juggling multiple projects - not least a deeply personal series about disability